Novelist
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year
The elegant extremist
Ian McEwan has always tempered his shocking stories with polished prose
The feud that made the modern age
A new book breathes new life into historical fiction
Rediscovering Martin Amis
He made reading, and writing, fun
An off-kilter visionary
Henry Green had a strange and distinctive talent
Remembering an “effervescently affable man”
Kurt Vonnegut at 100
The ascent of Barbara Pym
A chronicler of the overlooked, she has at last got her just literary deserts
Stand with Salman Rushdie
There should be no doubt
What’s behind that enigmatic smile?
The author of a new novel about the Mona Lisa explores the history of the world’s most famous painting
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
